Christine Hobden
Biographic Data
| ID | 4248034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Hobden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Hobden |
| SIGNATURE | HOBDEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Fort Hare |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2061-8727 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Expanding Public Political Philosophy
Despite growing attention on the nature and role of public political philosophy, the debate is strikingly narrow in its focus on the role of political philosophy (and political philosophers) within liberal democracies despite the vast political world under non- and semi-democratic conditions, and the democratic crisis within liberal democracies themselves. The aim of this article is therefore twofold: first to widen our contextual view, highlight…
Book Roundtable
This is a discussion between Guido Parietti, author of On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, Politics (Oxford University Press, 2022), and four respondents, Laurence Piper, Christine Hobden, Lawrence Hamilton and Camila Vergara, focussed on the notion of power as possibility. This discussion was first held in an online seminar in late 2024, which was broadcast on Theoria 's YouTube channel, and is captured here for readers
The Democratic Costs of South Africa’s Zimbabwean Exemption Permit Process
The Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) process is most often analyzed through the lens of migration and the justice of South Africa’s treatment of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. This discourse focuses on critically important issues yet remains incomplete in two important ways: first, it fails to interrogate the impact of the ZEP policy and process on South Africa’s citizenship regime; and second, it does not connect the governance failure…
Facing up to complexity again
This author’s reply responds to the commentary of Shuk Ying Chan, Stephanie Collins, Anna Stilz, and Ashwini Vasanthakumar on my 2021 book, Citizenship in a Globalised World. The response is structured around two broad themes: first, the choice to focus on the state and state-based citizenship in an argument that seeks a more just world order, and second, the attribution of moral responsibility to citizens – the question of to whom and how we att…
South Africa's Vaccine Roll-Out and Its Potential Costs to Our Social Contract
Over the COVID-19 period, much attention has been paid to the governance relationship between citizens and the state. In this article, however, we focus on a feature that is less evident in the day-to-day living of the social contract: the relationship between citizens. Because this horizontal cohesion is critical to the social contract, we suggest that it should not be neglected, even amid a deepening crisis of state–citizen relations. Using the…
Citizenship from the Couch
The tension between the public and the private spheres is not new: while feminists (among others) have long called for public protection to be extended to the private sphere, liberals argue for the need for the ‘defence of the “private sphere” from encroachment by the public’ (Geuss 2001 Geuss, Raymond. (2001). Public Goods, Private Goods. Princeton University Press.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]: 114). Although we acknowledge the problematic natu…
Citizenship in a Globalised World
What does it mean to be a citizen of a democracy today? This book challenges us to re- evaluate and ultimately reorient our state- based conception of democratic citizenship in order to meaningfully account for the context in which it is lived: a globalised, deeply interconnected, and deeply unjust world. Hobden argues for a new conception of citizenship that is state- based, but globally oriented. The book presents a new account of collective re…
Territorial Sovereignty
18 November 2019 CH: Thank you for agreeing to do this. The prompt for the interview was to talk about your recently published book, Territorial Sovereignty, but I thought before we got into that you could say something about your earlier work and how that led you to be interested in this particular project that you deal with in the book
Shrinking South Africa
The 1995 South African Citizenship Act in conjunction with s3 of the South African Constitution enshrined a free and equal Citizenship for all South Africans. The initial legislation inclined toward the inclusive, allowing dual citizenship and a number of other exceptions to reintegrate those who had lost citizenship under the Apartheid Regime. This paper argues that since 1995 there has been a slow but steady move to restrict access to citizensh…
Unequal Political Engagement and the Possible Risks to Democracy
Citizens increasingly engage with political issues in new ways by addressing politicians via social media, campaigning at international forums, or boycotting corporate entities. These forms of engagement move beyond more regulated electoral politics and are rightly celebrated for the ways they increase representation and provide new channels of accountability. Yet, despite these virtues, political engagement beyond voting inevitably tends to entr…
Global justice, states, and the relational view
On the global stage, states are agents that wage wars, negotiate trade agreements, and sign treaties. Much of this action is neutral or mutually beneficial, yet many state actions perpetuate global inequality and injustice. While proponents of the relational view often restrict the scope of justice, I argue that the view ought to be applied to the interactions between states-as-agents. The argument has two main steps. Firstly, I examine the relat…
Taking up the slack
This paper proposes two shifts in our approach to the brain drain crisis. First, it argues for a collective view. Since the moral wrong of the brain drain is inherently collective, we can best understand our consequent duties through a collective lens. Second, the paper argues that we ought to explore explicitly the duties of citizens of source states. These citizens systematically bear the burdens of labour migration, giving us good reason to se…
Unequal Political Engagement and the Possible Risks to Democracy
Citizens increasingly engage with political issues in new ways by addressing politicians via social media, campaigning at international forums, or boycotting corporate entities. These forms of engagement move beyond more regulated electoral politics and are rightly celebrated for the ways they increase representation and provide new channels of accountability. Yet, despite these virtues, political engagement beyond voting inevitably tends to entr…
Global justice, states, and the relational view
On the global stage, states are agents that wage wars, negotiate trade agreements, and sign treaties. Much of this action is neutral or mutually beneficial, yet many state actions perpetuate global inequality and injustice. While proponents of the relational view often restrict the scope of justice, I argue that the view ought to be applied to the interactions between states-as-agents. The argument has two main steps. Firstly, I examine the relat…
Taking up the slack
This paper proposes two shifts in our approach to the brain drain crisis. First, it argues for a collective view. Since the moral wrong of the brain drain is inherently collective, we can best understand our consequent duties through a collective lens. Second, the paper argues that we ought to explore explicitly the duties of citizens of source states. These citizens systematically bear the burdens of labour migration, giving us good reason to se…
Unequal Political Engagement and the Possible Risks to Democracy
Citizens increasingly engage with political issues in new ways by addressing politicians via social media, campaigning at international forums, or boycotting corporate entities. These forms of engagement move beyond more regulated electoral politics and are rightly celebrated for the ways they increase representation and provide new channels of accountability. Yet, despite these virtues, political engagement beyond voting inevitably tends to entr…
Territorial Sovereignty
18 November 2019 CH: Thank you for agreeing to do this. The prompt for the interview was to talk about your recently published book, Territorial Sovereignty, but I thought before we got into that you could say something about your earlier work and how that led you to be interested in this particular project that you deal with in the book
Shrinking South Africa
The 1995 South African Citizenship Act in conjunction with s3 of the South African Constitution enshrined a free and equal Citizenship for all South Africans. The initial legislation inclined toward the inclusive, allowing dual citizenship and a number of other exceptions to reintegrate those who had lost citizenship under the Apartheid Regime. This paper argues that since 1995 there has been a slow but steady move to restrict access to citizensh…
Citizenship from the Couch
The tension between the public and the private spheres is not new: while feminists (among others) have long called for public protection to be extended to the private sphere, liberals argue for the need for the ‘defence of the “private sphere” from encroachment by the public’ (Geuss 2001 Geuss, Raymond. (2001). Public Goods, Private Goods. Princeton University Press.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]: 114). Although we acknowledge the problematic natu…
Citizenship in a Globalised World
What does it mean to be a citizen of a democracy today? This book challenges us to re- evaluate and ultimately reorient our state- based conception of democratic citizenship in order to meaningfully account for the context in which it is lived: a globalised, deeply interconnected, and deeply unjust world. Hobden argues for a new conception of citizenship that is state- based, but globally oriented. The book presents a new account of collective re…
Facing up to complexity again
This author’s reply responds to the commentary of Shuk Ying Chan, Stephanie Collins, Anna Stilz, and Ashwini Vasanthakumar on my 2021 book, Citizenship in a Globalised World. The response is structured around two broad themes: first, the choice to focus on the state and state-based citizenship in an argument that seeks a more just world order, and second, the attribution of moral responsibility to citizens – the question of to whom and how we att…
South Africa's Vaccine Roll-Out and Its Potential Costs to Our Social Contract
Over the COVID-19 period, much attention has been paid to the governance relationship between citizens and the state. In this article, however, we focus on a feature that is less evident in the day-to-day living of the social contract: the relationship between citizens. Because this horizontal cohesion is critical to the social contract, we suggest that it should not be neglected, even amid a deepening crisis of state–citizen relations. Using the…
Expanding Public Political Philosophy
Despite growing attention on the nature and role of public political philosophy, the debate is strikingly narrow in its focus on the role of political philosophy (and political philosophers) within liberal democracies despite the vast political world under non- and semi-democratic conditions, and the democratic crisis within liberal democracies themselves. The aim of this article is therefore twofold: first to widen our contextual view, highlight…
Book Roundtable
This is a discussion between Guido Parietti, author of On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, Politics (Oxford University Press, 2022), and four respondents, Laurence Piper, Christine Hobden, Lawrence Hamilton and Camila Vergara, focussed on the notion of power as possibility. This discussion was first held in an online seminar in late 2024, which was broadcast on Theoria 's YouTube channel, and is captured here for readers
The Democratic Costs of South Africa’s Zimbabwean Exemption Permit Process
The Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) process is most often analyzed through the lens of migration and the justice of South Africa’s treatment of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. This discourse focuses on critically important issues yet remains incomplete in two important ways: first, it fails to interrogate the impact of the ZEP policy and process on South Africa’s citizenship regime; and second, it does not connect the governance failure…
Politics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (6 works) · Citizenship (5 works) · Law and economics (5 works) · State (computer science (5 works) · Economics (4 works)